NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre: Recent submissions
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Supportive Care: Comprehensive Conservative Care in End-Stage Kidney Disease
Published 2016Comprehensive conservative (nondialytic) kidney care is widely recognized and delivered but until recently, has not been clearly defined. We provide a clear definition of comprehensive conservative care. This includes ...Article -
Patient and caregiver values, beliefs and experiences when considering home dialysis as a treatment option: a semi-structured interview study
Published 2015Background. Home dialysis can offer improved quality of life and economic benefits compared with facility dialysis. Yet the uptake of home dialysis remains low around the world, which may be partly due to patients’ lack ...Open AccessArticle -
Patient and caregiver preferences for home dialysis—the home first study: a protocol for qualitative interviews and discrete choice experiments
Published 2015IIntroduction The number of patients requiring dialysis continues to increase worldwide imposing a substantial social and economic burden on patients, their families and healthcare systems. Compared with facility-based ...Open AccessArticle -
Social Dancing and Incidence of Falls in Older Adults: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial
Published 2016Background The prevention of falls among older people is a major public health challenge. Exercises that challenge balance are recognized as an efficacious fall prevention strategy. Given that small-scale trials have ...Open AccessArticle -
The cost to government and society of chronic kidney disease stage 1-5, a national cohort study
Published 2015Background:Costs associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are not well docu-mented. Understanding such costs is important to inform economic evaluations ofprevention strategies and treatment options.Aim:To estimate the ...Article